Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to offer input for the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming thematic report on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment at the service of the right to education. This ...

Researchers developed a tiny fart-measuring device that snaps into underwear. Left: University of Maryland. Right: S. Botasini et al., Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 How many ...

Registration required to attend in person at Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. With that, new and powerful artificial intelligence agents are emerging that can produce in seconds what it ...

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss." Following the release of ...

Female genital mutilation remains one of the most challenging human rights violations to eliminate because it is hidden, normalised and reinforced by deep social expectations. Over the years, ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin was among the facial features Hammett used to describe his fictional ...

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Editor's note: Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in slalom at the 2026 Winter Games, her third career Olympic gold medal. Team USA alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, one of the all-time greats of the sport, is ...

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Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...

As he took his final steps before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan had some poignant closing words: “We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for ...